ME AND MAULANA: A PERSONAL RECOLLECTION OF WAHIDUDDIN KHAN - John M. Butt

an International standard. Dr. Sahab has made it his life’s mission to take this material to the world. Maulana’s Sunday Lectures Simultaneously we decided to start recording Maulana’s Sunday lectures. To facilitate this we brought a small Sony handycam video recorder in the next class. Dr. Saniyasnain Khan Sahab understood the importance of this task and took the video recordings to a whole new level. He arranged for a better camera and continued the recordings. In time Dr. Sahab developed the 1 Nizamuddin Center as a studio and started regular classes there. Everybody realized that Maulana’s Sunday Lectures were different. Through the classes Maulana aimed to give a general introduction of Islam in the scientific framework so it addressed modern minds and becomes the voice of their own hearts and minds. The classes helped people to realize God—their Creator—themselves, understand His Creation Plan and develop a positive personality, which could inhabit Paradise in the eternal world of the Hereafter. The classes also helped people understand that if they wanted Paradise for themselves, they had to proclaim the divine truth to all mankind. The popularity of the classes grew, and people came to attend them from far and wide. Broadcast quality recordings of the lectures continued. They were first made live through U-Stream and later through Facebook Live Streams. Dr. Sahab arranged for the lectures to be edited and packaged and broadcast on television channels like ETV Urdu, Zee